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Deepening Connectivity: learning about ourselves through others as a way to experience integrity as an inquiry educator

 
 
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Deepening Connectivity: learning about ourselves through others as a way to experience integrity as an inquiry educator
by Kelly Hanson - Friday, 24 July 2015, 12:07 AM
 

Hi everyone!

This attached paper, Deepening Connectivity... was inspired through Sunday morning Skype calls with membersof the BARNi group. Sabre and I found Living Educational Theory research to be a powerful tool for our professional growth and a way to examine how our thinking and actions either connect or disconnect us from our values and from others. BARNi members helped us challenge our old ways of being and to develop new 'maps' (Wheatley, 2012) to help us reach the outcomes we desired. Over a 5 month inquiry period we: reflected weekly witheach other through a joint on-line reflective journal and at bi-weekly face to face meetings; we joined Bluewater Action Research Network International (BARNi); and we developed theoretical lenses of East Asian epistemology (Inoue, 2012), mindful learning (Langer, 1989) and systems thinking (Scharmar, 2009; Senge, 1990; Wheatley, 2012). We use these lenses to communicate our Living Educational Theory, our explanation of what influenced us through this inquiry.  We would love your feedback on our ideas on this paper. 
 
Warm Regards, 

Kelly Hanson

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Re: Deepening Connectivity: learning about ourselves through others as a way to experience integrity as an inquiry educator
by Kelly Hanson - Friday, 24 July 2015, 4:21 PM
 

Here is the copy of the paper that I meant to attach the first time, the one that is properly formatted!

Cheers,

Kelly

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Re: Deepening Connectivity: learning about ourselves through others as a way to experience integrity as an inquiry educator
by Jacqueline Delong - Sunday, 26 July 2015, 8:09 PM
 

Hi, Sabre and Kelly. I do love this article for the risks you take in challenging maps and boundaries and assumptions, for the creative ways that you challenge space and time and for the insights from mindfulness and Japanese ways of 'seeing'. You caused me to think and re-think my own self-imposed  limits.

You have clearly examined the nature of your influence on self and on others, the very essence of Living-Theory research.

I believe that it would be strengthened with further clarification of the roles of "I" and "we", of which person is speaking/writing and of the impact of the collaborative work on your relationship. A clip from the video of a SKYPE conversation, perhaps with some script would also assist in clarification. 

It is very well-written. I have attached the article with a few typographical notes. 

I recommend for publication with modifications.


Love, Jackie

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Re: Deepening Connectivity: learning about ourselves through others as a way to experience integrity as an inquiry educator
by Jocelyn Demirbag - Saturday, 25 July 2015, 7:31 PM
 
Hi Kelly,

I am looking forward to reading your paper and responding to you in the next couple of days.

Aloha,
Jocelyn
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Re: Deepening Connectivity: learning about ourselves through others as a way to experience integrity as an inquiry educator
by Jocelyn Demirbag - Sunday, 26 July 2015, 8:50 PM
 

Kelly and Sabre, I feel like my life has been enhanced by reading this paper!  I resonate deeply with the values you put forth--as a person and as an educator.  I love the multi-cultural references, as well as the actual references you cite. Some of the authors I also like to quote; others I look forward to getting familiar with.  As a professional within a Steiner/Waldorf school, I share the approach you are advocating. Thank you!

I have inserted a number of comments that I think would strengthen this paper. 

First, I think it would help to identify your context of inquiry learning more up front in the intro. Then your reflections have a place to nest.

Explicitly connecting the experiences you had in the skype convos to love and relationships would also help me follow your thinking directly and give more credence to the points you are making.

I have used inserted comments that appear on the side of the doc, as well as read text between paragraphs for broader concepts.  I also highlighted in a couple areas to clue myself to something important that you were referring to that I wanted to come back to.

I am really looking forward to seeing the next iteration and to sharing this article with others.

Aloha,

Jocelyn